(..me, I am a lonely man in the cosmos
what could loneliness mean in the cosmos
I asked what “lone” means in cosmos
nobody knew what it is, what is it?
cry just now, cry! cry!
take a look at eternity and sticky grief
look at the long drown out blood, blood in kandahar
o humans, be sickened with looking at the children.
we are under the same sky, do not forget about it!
we are under the same sky, do not forget about it!
I have seen that thing in this debased action
small dead bodies, gushing fears
from their veins, gushing fears, düm
see it düm, we were under the same sky.
the smiling eye, the looking eye, the loving eye,
see the one who was drowned in the spilled blood in afghanistan
in blood! in kanda!, in kandahar, blood
I have seen under the same sky, in this debased action
I have cried, walked, walked and cried
ra, ağ!, lü!düm! düm!lü!ağ! ağ!lü!düm! *
we were together under the same sky, and I have seen
their gods have forgotten about them altogether
it is a gazelle in afghanistan out of breath
it was killed in afghanistan by shouting and screaming
it was killed and I ran off to the blood sea
from there to the glaciers, and eventually to the magma
I wanted to go even to the deeper layers
to the deepest part of this damned world
we are together on the surface of the soil, o the sky
keep my sanity from this sticky insanity.
the smiling eye, the looking eye, the loving eye,
see the dying, perished ones in afghanistan
peal teeth, coral teeth, smiling mouth
prime me for the only and endless smile
that means we are lonely humans, aren’t we?
billions of lonely humans in the cosmos
all the persons asked seem to be lonely in this cosmos
let nobody grasp what lone means in the cosmos.)
English Translation by Mesut Şenol
* ra, düm,lü and ağ are the ancient gods worshipped in different periods.